Endangered turtle blown by hurricane onto Galway coast to be flown back to Gran Canaria

An infant turtle who survived hurricane force winds before being washed up on a Galway shore is being flown back home to Gran Canaria tomorrow as special passenger on Ryanair flight.

An endangered turtle swept over to the Galway coast by ferocious Atlantic storms is jetting back home to the Canaries tomorrow on board a Ryanair flight.

The loggerhead turtle named Mara was barely breathing when she was found suffering from severe hypothermia on Dolan's beach, Roundstone, Galway, by local woman Linda Hederman on September 13.